Dancing on a powder keg
By: Ilse Weber ; translated from the German, and foreword, by Michal Schwartz ; afterword by Ulrike Migdal ; essay on Thesesienstadt by Ruth Bondy
Contributors: Schwartz, Michal, 1961- translator, writer of foreword; Migdal, Ulrike, 1948- writer of afterword; Bondy, Ruth, author
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan; Yad Vashem
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Charlottetown, PE, Canada; Jerusalem, Israel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781933480398
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Correspondence; Jewish women authors; German poetry; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Work titles: Wann wohl das Leid ein Ende hat
Description: "Endorsed by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, as a unique document with literary value, Ilse Weber's letters and poems, 1933-1944, record with vivid immediacy the lives of her small family during a time of increasing danger, when Europe descended from peace to the chaos of war and genocide. Ilse wrote to her Swedish friend, Lilian, who lived in London, and from 1939, also to her older son whom the Webers sent to Lilian on a Kindertransport. In 1942, Ilse, her husband and younger son, were deported to the Thersienstadt ghetto. Working there in the children's infirmary, Ilse eased the daily suffering of her patients and fellow inmates with songs she wrote and set to music, accompanying herself on her contraband guitar. These more than 60 songs and poems that trace Ilse's last years, have been performed by various artists and ensembles from around the world, having become symbols of ghetto life under Nazi occupation."--
Notes: "Originally published in German, as Wann wohl das Leid ein Ende hat : Briefe und Gedichte aus Theresienstadt Herausgegben Von Ulricke Migdal, in 2008 by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, Kolbergerstrasse 22, 81670 München, Germany"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337).
Table of contents: title: The Letters, 1933-1944; title: The World of Theresienstadt / Ruth Bondy; title: The Poems from Theresienstadt, 1942-1944; title: Afterword by Ulrike Migdal: Against Forgetting; title: The Drawings